Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 40502-160-55, Isaac Goodsell, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Goodsell, Isaac
RLW 40502-160-55
Webster, Elizabeth
(Former widow)
CONTENTS

202.931
Act 3 rd March
Aug 18/55
Elizabeth Webster, formerly wife of Isaac Goodell
Capt
Col. Amos Swift
Connt Ma.
Private Col. Swift
Long. Line Rev. War.
Refers to Declaration filed under the Act of 1832
See Telford
Ad. 16 Dec 1856
BS
Joseph S. Perkins Tennessee

Gift Hist. to Bud Goodall 183 Pitkin St. President Own Gift Hist. to Mrs. Mary Fiske Hastings 21 Newton Pl. Newton, Cal. C. June 22/94. 1917 May 21 Hist. to Ruth P. Goodall

State of Pennsylvania County of Crawford } ss.
On this Twenty Seventh day of July eighteen hundred and fifty five. Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, Elizabeth Webster aged Seventy Seven Years, a resident of Cussewago Township County & State above stated. Who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Isaac Goodsell the late who was a private in the War of the Revolution, from the State of Connecticut. and thinks he served for a term of about Six Months, and also thinks that her said husband served under Col Heman Swift. But refers to a declaration made by her said husband under the act of 1832. She further declares that she was married to the said Isaac Goodsell in Beckman Dutches Co. N.Y. on the 18 th day of August A.D. 1808, by one Sperry a Justice of the Peace. And that her name before her said marriage was Elizabeth Sullivan. That her said husband died in Monroe Ashtabula Co. Ohio, on the 28 th day of February A.D. 1845. And that she is now a widow. She also further states that there is no record to her knowledge whereby she could prove her said marriage or the death of her said husband. That she hereby certifies and appoints Joseph S. Perkins of Veneango Penna her attorney on this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under an act in addition to certain acts granting bounty land to certain Officers and Soldiers who have been engaged in the service of the United States approved March 3 rd 1855. Never having applied for nor received bounty land under this or any former act of Congress.
Elizabeth for X Webster Seal Mark

We Calvin Lake and Betsey Lake residents of the County of Crawford State of Pennsylvania Upon our Oaths Declare That the within Declara- tion was signed and acknowledged by Elizabeth Webster in our presence. That we are well and personally acquainted with her. And we were also well and personally acquainted with the within named Isaac Goodsell in his life time. That the said Isaac Goodsell and the said Elizabeth Webster lived and cohabited together as husband and wife and were so considered by all who knew them. That they reared a family of children that we knew them personally for many years. And further from the best of our recollection the said Isaac Goodsell died at the time and place as stated in the within declaration
Calvin Lake Betsey Lake
The within and foregoing declaration and affida- vit was sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year first above on the within declaration written. And I certify that the affiants are credible persons. That the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim.
Isaac Peiffer Justice of the Peace

State of Pennsylvania,
CRAWFORD COUNTY, ss:
I, Wm. Hepe, Prothonotary and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said county of Crawford, Certify, that Isaac Peiffer Esquire, before whom the annexed and foregoing declaration & affidavit was taken was at the date thereof, an acting Justice of the Peace, within and for the said county, duly qualified, and as such duly authorized by the laws of this Commonwealth to take the same. And Further, that I am acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice and believe the signature purporting to be his is genuine;
with that the same is executed & acknowledged in conformity to the laws of the State of Pennsylvania.
In Testimony Whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of the said Court, at Meadville, the 26th day of August A. D. 1855.
Wm Hepe, Prothonotary, &c.
212931
Benjamin Alvin of Eliza H. Alvin of Isaac Goodall
Wm H Hepe Prothonotary
Presented by Joseph P. Kincaid Vernon H. Kincaid

V.L.M. Rev. War Section.
May 21, 1917.
Bertha P. Goodsell, Maple Hill, New Britain, Connecticut.
Madam:
In response to your letter dated the 8 th instant, you are advised that a careful search of the records of this Bureau fails to show a Revolutionary War pension claim on file on account of the services of Isaac Goodsell, but said records show that 160 acres of bounty land were allowed on Warrant # 40,508 to Elizabeth Webster ( maiden name Elizabeth Sullivan ) former widow of Isaac Goodsell, on account of the services of said soldier in the Revolutionary War. She was a resident of Cussewago Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania in 1855, and stated that Isaac Goodsell served as a Private from the State of Connecticut under Colonel Heman Swift about six months, no further details of his service are given.
She was married to Isaac Goodsell August 18, 1808, at Beekman, Dutchess County New York. He died February 28, 1845, at Monroe, Ashtabula County, Ohio. Children are referred to but no names are stated.
Very respectfully,
M. Delzgal Commissioner.

Jan 5/93 Feb. 23/94.
MEXICAN SERVICE.
Cert. No. 16088.
SURVIVOR.
John B. Goodfellow.
MC GOWAN.
MAR 5 1894

Sept. 14-1908 H-15 Mrs. Mary V. Hastings Phoenix Ariz.
40.502
160 - Acres

July 31, 1935
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Mrs. C.H.Baldwin 510 Academy Street Fulton, New York
SA-J/EL Isaac Goodsell-B.L.Wt.#40802-160- 55 Thomas Goodsell-S.10756
Dear Madam:
References made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Isaac Goodsell, who lived in Oneida County, New York in 1802, and Thomas Goodsell, who is buried in Kirkland Cemetery, Clinton, New York, having died about 1840, and who was a pensioner, both soldiers of the Revolutionary War.
The histories of these soldiers are furnished you herein.
Isaac Goodsell B.L.Wt.#40802-160-55
The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in claim for bounty land based upon the services of Isaac Goodsell the only soldier of that name that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.
The date and place of birth of Isaac Goodsell and the names of his parents are not shown.
Isaac Goodsell served six months in the Connecticut Troops under Colonel Heman Swift. No particulars of his services are given.
He married August 18, 1808, in Becken Township, Dutchess County, New York, Elizabeth Sullivan. The date and place of her birth and names of her parents are not given.
The soldier died February 28, 1845, at Monroe, Ashtabula County, Ohio.
On July 27, 1855, Elizabeth Webster, then aged seventy-seven years and a resident of Ousewago Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, applied for the bounty land which was due on account of

the services of her former husband, Isaac Goodsell in the Revolutionary War. She was granted one hundred sixty acres on Warrant No. 40502 under the act of March 3, 1855.
There is no record of a claim for pension having been made on account of the services of this soldier.
In order to obtain information in regard to the location of the land cited above, you should address The Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, and furnish that official with the number of the warrant, the acreage and the act under which said warrant was issued.
It was stated that Isaac Goodsell and his wife, Elizabeth, reared a family of children. No names are given. The Christian name of the husband of Elizabeth Goodsell Webster was not shown nor the date of her marriage to him.
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Thomas Goodsell S.10756
The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.10756, based upon the military service in that war of Thomas Goodsell.
Thomas Goodsell was born in East Haven, Connecticut, in 1739. The names of his parents are not shown.
While residing in Woodbury (later Washington), Litchfield County, Connecticut, Thomas Goodsell volunteered August 1, 1776, and served until October 5, 1776, as sergeant in Captain David Judson's Company, Colonel Hixson's or Colonel Canfield's Connecticut Regiments; he volunteered in December, 1776, and served two and one-half months as sergeant under same captain in Colonel Canfield's or in Colonel Moseley's Connecticut Regiments; he later volunteered and served on alarms on short tours until the close of the war; dates and names of officers not shown. He stated that he served over one year in all.
He continued to reside in Washington, Connecticut until 1801, then moved to Kirkland, Oneida County, New York, of which place he was a resident when he was allowed pension on his application executed January 31, 1833.

Thomas Goodsell died June 28, 1840, at Kirkland, New York.
In 1841, soldier's son, Thomas Goodsell, was a resident of Utica, New York. The name of soldier's wife is not shown and no names of any other children are given.
Very truly yours
A. D. MILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
O. W. & N. Div.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
I. S.
M. E. C.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 22, 1894.
Sir:-
Replying to your communication of June 12th, herewith returned, in which you request the Revolutionary history of one Isaac Goodsell, whose daughter, Mrs. Mary Ann Goodsell, is stated to have received a pension, you are advised that the pension records of this Bureau have been very carefully examined and it does not appear that any application for pension has ever been received for his services. If you can furnish any further data by which the Bureau would be enabled to identify pension papers another careful search will be made.
In 1855 one Elizabeth Webster, the former widow of the above mentioned soldier and who was then residing in Cussewago, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, applied for bounty land and the same was allowed for his services in that war. She stated in her declaration that he served as a private from the State of Connecticut, for about six months, under Col. Neman Swift. No further particulars of his services are given.
She was married to the soldier in Beekman, Dutchess County, New York, August 13, 1808, her maiden name being Elizabeth Sullivan.

The soldier died in Monroe, Ashtabula County, Ohio, on the 28th day of February, 1845.
Very respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.
Mr. Buel Goodsell,
183 Britannia St.,
Meriden, Conn.

510 Academy St Fulton, N.Y.
June 26, 1936.
Department of Interior Bureau of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Could you give me any information regarding Isaac Goodall , a Rev. Soldier who lived in the N.E. part of West- moreland Co. Town, under Co. in 1802.
Rev. Rev. Soldier Thomas Goodall , who is buried in Kirkland Cemetery, Clinton, N.Y. He died about 1840 in Clinton N.Y. aged nearly 100 yrs.

He was a pensioner, and I thought thro' the records there might be some mention of his wife or children.
Sincerely
& obliged
Florence V. Baldwin
(Mrs. C. R.)
Registrar of Koyun-datzoma Chapter N. G. R.

one transfer envelope received Maple Hill, New Britain, Conn. May 8th. 1917.
Stamp & envelope mch
TO The Bureau of Pensions Washington D.C.
Will you kindly send me a copy of the pension papers of Isaac Goodsell who fought in the War of the Revolution . He enlisted from Connecticut I believe. He was my great grandfather hence my desire to get more definite information as to his pension records.
Very Truly
Betsey P. Goodsell -

No 20, 9th Street
offered by the Bureau of Pensions July 3rd 1900
Yours also and Grandfather's papers I hope to hear from you soon
Phoenix Ariz July 3rd 1900 Dear Sir
I have lost my Grandfather's war papers. Will you be so kind as to send me an other envelope the envelop which I received from Isaac Goodrell, son of under the name of Herman Swift of Clancy in the Roswell Co. I also desire you to send another copy to the Editor of the Magazine No 506 1/2 4th St NW. He also is his Grandson and greatly obliged Mary W. Hastings

has Elwazth of Monroe Center another Grandson would be glad to get one
Ntshabula Co Ohio

DIVISION.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C., Aug. 8., 18 94
Respectfully returned to
Mr. Buel Goodsell,
Short Beach,
Branford, Conn.
A careful search has been made and nothing has been found on file with the widow's application for bounty land which would throw light upon the date and place of birth of the soldier or his place the date of his enlistment.
Commissioner.

G.
84 Dearborn Place
San Francisco Calif
8
May 4th 1894 To the Commission of Pension Sir.
Allow me to thank you for the Papers you sent to me regarding my Grand Father Isaac Goodell who I wished in your during the Revolution was married Elizabeth Sullivan of Dearborn Defence by N.Y. I have loaned the Papers you sent me to my Cousin Bragg Isaac Goodell of the M.E. Church and he has carried them off to Short Bridge Conn

so his family can say they have he will not return till Oct and I want to use those Papers this month
Will you be so kind as to send me a duplicate as soon as convenient and greatly oblig.
Yours Truly Mrs Mary Viola Hastings
P.S. We got the Land Warrant at Seneca borough Pennsylvania Crawford Co Pa about 1852 for 4
Isaac Goodsell died in Monroe Ashtabula Co Ohio my mother Elizabeth Leake to whom grandmother

assigned got the warrant Grand Father was a Private soldier in a Com regiment 6 months
Respectfully